Biography

A Northern California native, Liz Vaughn attends the College of Charleston in South Carolina where she is both, a double major in Women’s and Gender and International Studies, and a captain of the College’s Division one softball team. She focuses her studies on the Middle East and North Africa and was thrilled at the opportunity to live, study, and intern in Meknes, Morocco in the summer of 2013. While in Meknes she had the unique chance to intern both for Women’s Voices Now and a local organization, called IPDFM, that works to combat domestic violence by providing legal aid and listening centers for women in the region. In her time abroad, she learned that the most effective way to contribute to the enactment of positive progress is by promoting awareness. She believes this is best achieved through collaboration with community members and promoting local voices like she was able to do through her involvement with WVN. Liz is excited at the opportunity to continue work with WVN as she greatly respects the goals of the organization and its ability to promote gender equality in Muslim majority societies, whilst cherishing the amazing culture and peoples that live amongst them.

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The WVoice is a monthly online publication disseminated by Women’s Voices Now (WVN), with a multifold mission: to create a written and (audio)visual body of works that documents international women’s stories and issues, to educate and foster cross-cultural and societal connections, and to promote women’s rights activists and advocacy groups.